feat: migrate mesh transport from vendored @agentmesh/sdk to @microsoft/agentmesh-sdk (AGT)

[imran-siddique]

Replace vendored @agentmesh/sdk with @microsoft/agentmesh-sdk

Completes migration from vendored amitayks @agentmesh/sdk to Microsoft's @microsoft/agentmesh-sdk (AGT).

Changes

Identity (identity.ts) — Rewritten with Node.js crypto, no external SDK. Supports legacy schema-2 + new schema-3 with auto-migration preserving AMID/keys.

Transport (agt-transport.ts) — Full IMeshTransport using AGT's MeshClient + X3DHKeyManager for Signal E2E. Discovery via registry REST API.

Connection (connection.ts) — doConnect() uses AgtTransport. App-layer code unchanged.

CLI — Dependency + imports updated to @microsoft/agentmesh-sdk.

Vendor removal — Deleted vendor/agentmesh-sdk, vendor/agentmesh-relay, vendor/agentmesh-registry (57K+ lines).

Tests

44 tests pass across 5 files. New agt-transport.test.ts (8 tests). Updated identity/connection/federation tests.

[pallakatos]

Review — request changes, do not merge yet

Thanks for the push on this. I went through the PR against the refreshed AGT
main (microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit) and our docs/agt-mesh-migration-analysis.md.
The direction is right and the upstream crypto work (X3DH / Double Ratchet /
SecureChannel / MeshClient in AGT main) looks genuinely solid. But this PR as
it stands is not mergeable — it doesn't build, the encrypted send path
cannot work at runtime, and deleting vendor/agentmesh-relay + vendor/agentmesh-registry
breaks deployment in several places.

Below is the full gap list. Happy to pair on any of this.

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🔴 Hard blockers

1. Build fails — SDK symbols aren't published on npm yet
cli/package.json and mesh-plugin/package.json depend on @microsoft/agentmesh-sdk@^3.2.0.
The published 3.2.0 on npm is governance-only — it exports only
AgentIdentity, TrustManager, PolicyEngine, AuditLogger, AgentMeshClient,
GovernanceMetrics, McpSecurityScanner, LifecycleManager. The encryption
symbols this PR imports (X3DHKeyManager, MeshClient, SecureChannel,
DoubleRatchet) exist only on AGT main (PRs #1278 and #1301), unreleased.

Reproduce:

cli $ npm run build
src/plugin.ts(1753,26): error TS2307: Cannot find module '@microsoft/agentmesh-sdk'...
src/plugin.ts(1945,36): error TS2307: Cannot find module '@microsoft/agentmesh-sdk'...
mesh-plugin $ npm run build
src/agt-transport.ts(13,27): error TS2307: Cannot find module '@microsoft/agentmesh-sdk'...

Action: AGT needs to cut a real npm release (3.3.0 / 4.0.0) that actually
exports the encryption module. We should then pin to that exact version, not ^3.2.0.

2. Encrypted send path will throw on first call to any non-plaintext peer
AgtTransport.send() calls MeshClient.send(peerId, payload). In AGT main:

// mesh-client.ts line ~150
if (!session || !session.channel) {
  throw new Error(`No encrypted session with ${peerId}. Call establishSession() first.`);
}

AgtTransport:

• never calls MeshClient.establishSession()
• never publishes our own prekey bundle to the registry
• never fetches a peer's PreKeyBundle from the registry

The only reason the 44 mesh-plugin tests pass is that none of them exercise
an actual relay. Any real session will throw on the first send.

Action: wire up the prekey lifecycle:
a. on connect: keyManager.generateSignedPreKey() / generateOneTimePreKeys(n) → publish to registry
b. on first send to peer X: fetch X's bundle from registry → client.establishSession(X, bundle) → then send
c. on inbound KNOCK carrying an establishment payload: call client.acceptSession(peer, establishment)

3. vendor/agentmesh-relay + vendor/agentmesh-registry deletion breaks deployment
Still referenced by:

• Makefile targets image-relay, image-registry, push (points at vendor/agentmesh-{relay,registry}/Dockerfile)
• cli/src/commands/push.ts:66-68 (relay + registry build entries)
• cli/src/commands/dev.ts:222-225 (dev-mode build of agentmesh-relay:dev)
• deploy/agentmesh.yaml:112,212 (deploys agentmesh-relay:latest + agentmesh-registry:latest images)

After this PR, make images, azureclaw up, azureclaw push, and azureclaw dev
all fail on a clean clone, and the existing deployed images are unrebuildable.

Action: whichever relay/registry replaces them has to (a) actually exist in
this repo or another vendor/ entry, and (b) be wired into Makefile / push.ts /
dev.ts / deploy/agentmesh.yaml in the same PR.

4. Wire-format mismatch with the Rust relay that's actually deployed
AGT MeshClient sends {v:1, type:"connect"|"message"|"knock"|"ack"|...} frames.
The vendored Rust relay's tagged enum uses "send" (not "message"), has no
v:1, and doesn't know knock / knock_accept / knock_reject types as
emitted by AGT. This is a protocol mismatch, not a patch-level bug.

Action: depends on #3. Either ship a new relay that speaks the AGT wire
shape, or teach AGT MeshClient our existing wire shape. Without this, the
deployed Rust relay and a new AGT TS client cannot talk to each other at all.

5. No production store-and-forward relay
packages/agent-mesh/src/agentmesh/relay/store.py provides only InMemoryInboxStore
— explicitly labeled "for development," state is lost on restart. The vendored
Rust relay we're deleting had 72h TTL durable inbox (Duration::hours(72)).
Losing durability regresses offload + handoff.

Action: AGT should ship a real relay (Postgres/Redis-backed, container image,
Helm manifest) before this PR can land — or we keep the Rust relay.

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🟡 Correctness / security gaps in AGT upstream (please fix upstream before we adopt)

6. X3DHKeyManager.verifyBundle doesn't verify the signed-prekey signature
packages/agent-mesh/sdks/typescript/src/encryption/x3dh.ts:210-220:

function verifyBundle(bundle: PreKeyBundle): void {
  if (bundle.signedPreKeySignature.length !== 64) throw ...
  if (bundle.signedPreKey.length !== 32) throw ...
  if (bundle.identityKey.length !== 32) throw ...
}

Only checks lengths; no Ed25519 verification. Also, PreKeyBundle.identityKey is
the X25519 key — the Ed25519 public key needed to verify the signature isn't in
the bundle schema. The vendored SDK did verify this. Adopting AGT as-is is a
real crypto-binding regression.

Action: AGT fix — add identityKeyEd to PreKeyBundle, call ed25519.verify(sig, signedPreKey, identityKeyEd) in verifyBundle.

7. No prekey REST on the AGT registry
AgtTransport.discover() calls GET /agents?capability=X. There is no
POST /prekeys / GET /prekeys/{id} endpoint surface, and no TS client code
for one. Section 4 of the migration analysis flagged this as blocking — still
blocking.

8. No delivery-on-reconnect handshake in MeshClient
Even once a durable relay exists, MeshClient.connect() sends {type:"connect"}
and then waits for incoming frames. There's no fetch_pending / inbox_replay
call. A sub-agent that was offline during a send won't receive the message on
reconnect.

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🟡 Smaller issues in this PR

9. mesh-plugin/src/agt-identity.ts is dead code. Referenced only via
Symbol.for("agt-identity") in cli/src/plugin.ts:3179, never meaningfully
consumed. Either wire it up or remove.

10. KNOCK is hardcoded {accept: true} in connection.ts:180. Same
behavior as before, but KNOCK was supposed to carry intent — no hook is
plumbed through to policy.

11. No real integration test. The 44 mesh-plugin tests cover construction
and disconnected state only. We need at minimum a two-AgtTransport test
against a live relay process doing an encrypted round-trip — that would have
caught issue #2 immediately.

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🟢 What's good — let's keep this

These changes are independently useful and could land as a standalone "phase 2"
PR (per docs/agt-mesh-migration-analysis.md §10 phased plan) while the above
is sorted out upstream:

• mesh-plugin/src/transport-interface.ts — the IMeshTransport abstraction is
  exactly the behavior-preserving refactor we wanted before any swap.
• mesh-plugin/src/identity.ts rewrite onto Node crypto with schema-2 →
  schema-3 migration preserving AMID and keys. Clean and correct.
• AGT upstream MeshClient preserving plaintextPeers + wsFactory — thanks
  for pulling those two patch hooks into the upstream design.

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Recommendation

Request changes — block merge until (1)–(5) are addressed.

Suggested path forward:

1. Now: split this PR. Land the IMeshTransport abstraction + identity.ts
   rewrite as a separate, mergeable PR. That's low-risk and gives us the
   abstraction the eventual swap needs.
2. AGT side: cut an npm release that exports the encryption module; fix
   the prekey signature verification + bundle schema (feat: persistent trust store across pod recreations #6); ship a durable
   relay + registry (or decide we keep the Rust ones and extend AGT
   MeshClient to speak the existing wire shape); add a prekey REST surface
   (security: inference requests bypass policy evaluation entirely (CRITICAL) #7); implement delivery-on-reconnect (security: sub-agent spawn not gated by policy or trust score #8).
3. AzureClaw side, once 2 is done: revive this PR with prekey lifecycle
   wired through (chore(deps): bump rustls-webpki from 0.103.9 to 0.103.10 #2), deployment references updated (fix(entrypoint): pre-create OpenClaw temp dirs and fix router log redirect #3), and a real
   two-peer encrypted-round-trip integration test.

Happy to help scope any of the AGT-side work and contribute tests / repro cases.

/cc the analysis in docs/agt-mesh-migration-analysis.md — §5 and §11 list the exact gaps this PR needs to close.

[imran-siddique]

Thanks @pallakatos for the thorough review. You're right on all 5 hard blockers and the 3 upstream issues. Here's the plan:

Phase 1 (this PR, split): Land the safe parts only:

• IMeshTransport abstraction (transport-interface.ts)
• identity.ts rewrite onto Node crypto with schema-2 to schema-3 migration
• These are independently useful and low-risk

Phase 2 (AGT upstream fixes): Created tracking issues:

• [Release]: Publish npm package with encryption module exports (X3DH, MeshClient, SecureChannel) microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit#1404 — npm release with encryption exports
• [Security]: X3DHKeyManager.verifyBundle doesn't verify signed-prekey signature microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit#1405 — PreKeyBundle signature verification (security)
• [Feature]: Add prekey REST endpoints to AgentMesh Registry service microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit#1406 — Prekey REST endpoints on Registry
• [Feature]: MeshClient delivery-on-reconnect (inbox replay) microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit#1407 — MeshClient delivery-on-reconnect

Phase 3 (this repo): Once AGT upstream is fixed:

• Revive full migration with prekey lifecycle wired through
• Keep vendor/relay + vendor/registry until AGT ships durable relay
• Wire format alignment (AGT MeshClient to speak existing Rust relay shape OR ship new relay)
• Real two-peer encrypted round-trip integration test

I'll split this PR now. The identity rewrite + transport abstraction can land immediately.

[imran-siddique]

Superseded by #29 (Phase 1 only — transport abstraction + identity rewrite). The full migration will resume once AGT upstream issues are resolved (microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit#1404–#1407).